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It is known from the work of C. F. Dunkl, R. I. Jewett, and R. Spector that hypergroups, that are discrete, compact or commutative, admit Haar measures. The existence of Haar measures for general hypergroups still forms an open problem. The author of this paper claims to give a sketch of the proof of this difficult problem. In the spirit of R. Spector's approach in the commutative case, his attempt is based on a generalization of the Ryll-Nardzewski fixed point theorem for distal semigroups of operators which are not necessarily affine linear. This fixed point theorem proved in this paper is interesting for its own; however, the reviewer is not sure if it can be really applied to the existence of Haar measures, as it may be very difficult to check the distality condition of the fixed point theorem. Moreover, the reviewer has the impression that some essential statements stated in the paper without proofs are not correct. For instance, all assertions of Proposition 1.9 are usually not correct (take a measure \(\mu\) on a compact commutative hypergroup with \(\widehat\mu\) having zeros). As a consequence, it is not clear whether some essential results in Section 2 are correct. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0886.00009].